School Spirits (2017) s01e03 Episode Script

Collision Curse/Deadly Dorm Games

1
It's nuts.
It's crazy.
It's too insane.
I knew I had seen a ghost.
It's what haunted me
for 20 years.
That rage.
There was
something else there.
I felt so scared out
of my mind,
I didn't know what
I could do next.
I felt a physical blow
completely of emotion.
I was so scared.
We probably brought this
on our ourselves.
[CLATTERING]
She didn't like it
that we were playing with her.
We were in danger.
We're going to be hurt.
He was so angry.
He just
He
[SCREAMS]
[BELL RINGS]
Questions
are gonna be different.
The town that I lived in
was a fairly small town.
My high school
was very confining to my spirit.
Everybody dressed alike.
It honestly felt like a prison.
It didn't feel like
the real world.
My senior year of high school,
I was a girl on a mission.
My thoughts are focused
on graduation,
college, freedom,
getting out of that town
and seeing the world.
I just wanted to get out
of there as fast as I could.
The boys from my high school
were not a thought in my mind.
I just wanted to leave
everything behind me.
Yeah?
[GIGGLES]
I was dating
this young man.
He was out of high school,
older.
Parents would kill me
if they knew I was dating him.
And that night I remember
I was trying
to make it home in time
for curfew.
And I was wearing
a hot pink little dress.
And that was the first night
that I wore it.
I finally felt, I think,
like an adult that night.
I reached the first stop sign
and proceeded down
old creek road.
There's a section
of probably a half mile
to close to a mile
that becomes very twisty.
It's a little bit tricky
for a girl who hasn't
been driving very long.
Out of nowhere,
like, literally out
of nowhere,
two hadlights appeared
in my rearview mirror.
The headlights were up high.
It was some sort
of a pick-up truck.
Where the heck did
that come from?
There's no opportunity
for something
to appear out of nowhere.
There's no driveways.
There are no houses.
It's nothing but forest
on either side.
These headlights appeared
almost like by magic.
Whoever was driving
was barreling down on me.
I was a fairly new driver.
This is my dad's car.
And as I'm easing into the bend
to approach
the second "S" curve
I had this mounting panic.
I'm still trying to figure out
where these
headlights came from.
As I'm having this thought
They disappeared.
They vanished.
They just were no more.
And in that instant
[CRASHING]
There was this horrible
scratching of metal on metal.
[METAL GRATING]
It's not my car.
I'm nowhere near
the guardrail.
And the sound isn't outside
the car.
It's inside the car.
On top of the noise
is this sound
of this girl screaming
at the top of her lungs.
[GIRL SCREAMING]
Just a blood-curdling scream.
And then
there was this terrible
slam.
[CRASHING]
Like a car hitting,
like, a tree.
And then nothing.
I was all over
the yellow line,
trying to get out
of those "S" curves
as fast as I could.
And at the end of the "S" curves
is another stop sign.
[TIRES SKIDDING]
Reflexively,
I just punch the brakes.
[GASPING]
My brain is just swirling.
There's a thought
that enters my mind,
and it says,
"Don't look up.
Victoria, don't look up."
Like, there's this impulse
to just go.
[GASPING]
And as I was about
to step on the gas,
I looked up.
About
ten yards behind me,
there was this kid
in the road.
I hadn't passed him.
I hadn't seen him.
I hadn't hit him.
It was as if he had appeared
out of thin air.
I could see him so clearly
in the rearview mirror.
I can see what he's wearing.
Light curdorys
and a brown bomber jacket.
I couldn't see his face.
It was hidden in shadow.
And as I'm thinking,
"Who are you,
and where did you come from"
[ROARS]
[SCREAMING]
I felt a physical blow,
like a punch
that was comprised
completely of emotion.
Just knocked the wind
out of me.
It was so strong.
He was
[SHUDDERING]
He was so angry.
And he just
He
[ROARING]
[SCREAMING]
And it scared the living
daylights out of me.
And I just hit the gas.
And I flew.
I flew home.
[DOOR SLAMS]
Hey, don't slam the door.
What's the matter?
I came into the kitchen,
and my parents were
so obviously alarmed.
I couldn't speak.
Why are you so upset?
I'm okay.
My mother said,
"What happened to you,
what happened to you,"
and I couldn't even tell her.
And she said to my dad,
"Jerry, call 911."
No, dad.
I was afraid of being seen
as crazy.
And then in sort
of halted phrases,
I managed to kind of describe
what had happened.
I was driving, and there,
um, there was an accident.
My father even said,
"You left the scene
of an accident?"
And I said, "No,
you don't get it."
"There was no accident.
It was the sound
of the accident."
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
My family didn't believe me.
And it was hard.
I was sort of left to deal
with what I'd been through.
I couldn't figure it out.
None of it made sense.
None of it was logical.
I knew I had seen a ghost.
I knew.
But who is he?
Where did this kid come from?
[DISTANT ROARING]
[DISTANT SCREAMING]
All of the people
in my world,
they couldn't tell me
what it was.
They couldn't help me
through it.
I was literally freaked out.
I said, "What do you want
to do?"
We're going to be hurt."
[GIRL SCREAMS]
[MAN ROARING]
[SCREAMING]
Scared the living daylights
out of me.
And I just hit the gas.
And I flew.
I was sort of left to deal
with what I'd been through.
But I couldn't figure it out.
I knew I had seen a ghost.
I knew.
This wasn't a story that I
was going to share with anyone.
Who would have believed it?
It's too nuts.
It's too crazy.
It's too insane.
It was way too upsetting
for me
and way too risky
to be seen
as someone who'd lost
their mind.
A few weeks after,
my sister, who was away
at college in Massachusetts,
came home.
Probably because she
was distracted
with my sister
being in the car
or because she was tired
of taking alternate routes,
my mother decided
to take the most direct route,
which was old creek road.
Mom, what are you doing?
Mom, what are you doing?
It's the shortest way,
Victoria.
You can't go this way.
It doesn't matter
if it's short.
Please just stop.
I never wanted
to go down that road again,
and I have never been down
that road again.
I really don't want
to do this.
I don't want to see it.
I don't want to see it.
It was too traumatic.
It was too upsetting.
It was too haunting.
Stop!
Victoria.
It really, really,
really rattled me
for years and years
and years.
And all of the people
in my world
that were supposed
to know how to deal with that
had no idea.
They couldn't tell me
what it was.
They couldn't help me
through it.
[VOICES MILLING]
Ten years after high school,
I was working
at a very popular drinking hole.
And one of the regulars
was this guy who looked
super familiar.
I was going by a local bar,
and started going there
more often.
Every time I waited on him,
we'd kind of look
at each other like,
"Do I know you?"
Sorry.
Hey, um, I'm sorry.
Did you go to shs?
After a while,
we realized
that we went to high school
together.
And he said, "Yeah,
what year did you graduate?"
And I said, "I graduated
this year."
And he said, "That was
the year I graduated."
[CHUCKLES]
I know we had
a bigger high school,
but I did not know her
and she didn't really know
who I was.
As time went on,
you know,
we'd start hanging out
and doing stuff together.
After getting to know him
a little bit better,
Johnny became one
of my dearest friends
in the whole wide world.
He's just a really,
really good person.
Over the years,
I couldn't forget this
experience on old creek road.
And I was still so undone by it.
I just wanted someone else
to hear about this experience.
It's weird it's surreal
to tell somebody about this.
I haven't actually, um
But I was driving home
one night,
and I don't uh, these
headlights appeared behind me
out of nowhere.
As she's going
through her story,
I'm like, "Okay."
Why are you telling me this?"
You know?
He's not easily moved.
He's not sentimental by any
stretch of the imagination.
I really don't believe
in ghosts
or paranormal activities.
I was driving
on old creek road.
It kicked off in my head.
It's like, well, wait a minute.
Old creek road.
Do you remember that accident
that happened junior year?
And then I remembered.
I remembered the crash.
And it was like a lightbulb
went off.
There had been an accident
that had taken place
on old creek road
when I was a junior
in high school
that had involved
four kids
from my high school
and one kid from
the catholic high school
driving the truck was this very
popular cheerleader, Beth.
The truth is that Beth and I had
absolutely nothing in common,
and I never would have given her
a second thought
if it hadn't been
for what happened.
[CHUCKLING AND CONVERSATION]
[SQUEALING AND LAUGHTER]
Oh, you two lovebirds.
Uh-huh?
This pick-up truck
was driving southbound
on old creek road.
There's an "S" curve
going into the bridge.
The vehicle could not
maintain control.
[CRASHING]
The truck rode the guardrail.
[GIRL SCREAMING]
This truck flipped over.
The truck went on its top
and spun around approximately
180 degrees.
[SIRENS BLARING]
[RADIO CHATTER]
The two people
in the rear of the truck
were thrown out
and landed on the ditch
on the other side of the road.
You all right?
Oh, my god!
The passenger, Chloe,
went out
the passenger side window.
She suffered several injuries
to her hand and arm.
The driver, Beth,
had minor injuries.
Miss, what's your name?
The passenger Michael
was not as lucky
as the other passengers.
Sir, sir.
And he was fatally injured.
That matched perfectly
with the sequence of events.
The headlights were high.
They belonged
to a pick-up truck.
The striking of the guardrail
on the right
to the scraping along
the pavement.
And there was a passenger
in the front seat.
Oh, my
Oh, my god!
[SCREAMING]
And I think what I heard
was her scream.
It might have been
this kid who was killed
in my rearview mirror.
But I didn't know
the boy who died.
I'd never seen him before.
I didn't know who he was.
He was completely unknown to me.
Standing, like, dead center
in the middle of the road.
As I started to describe
to Johnny
what he was wearing
He had tan khakis on.
And he was wearing this
brown leather bomber jacket.
[FORK CLATTERING]
And I hear a click,
and I look up,
and Johnny has dropped his fork.
And he's staring at me
with big, wide eyes.
The color has drained out
of his face.
And he said, "You're not going
to believe this."
As I got to the part
where this young man
was standing ten yards
behind my car,
and I started to describe
to Johnny what he was wearing
He had tan khakis on,
and he was wearing this
brown leather bomber jacket.
And Johnny is staring at me
with big, wide eyes.
The color has drained out
of his face.
And I said, "What is
the matter with you?"
And he said,
"You're not going
to believe this."
When we were in high school,
we used to play
a lot of football.
I remember one day
another car pulled up.
Six guys jumped out
from the catholic school.
What's going on, man?
One of the guys who had showed
up out of the car
was a neighbor of a friend
of mine, Michael.
Hut.
One Mississippi,
two Mississippi,
three Mississippi.
Oh, no!
[HORN HONKING]
And Michael was dating
a girl from our school.
The guys from that school
were definitely competition
for the ladies in our school.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Aw.
Victoria said that he was
wearing a brown leather jacket
and brown curdoroys.
I'm like, well, wait a minute.
That's what Michael was wearing
the day I played football
with him
and the day he died.
Victoria didn't know Michael.
She would never have known
what he was wearing.
The details were so precise.
And only reason I knew
what he was wearing
was 'cause I saw him that day.
In that moment,
it was so powerful,
because it made it real.
[CRYING]
I have to believe her
because that was, like,
really eerie
that she had that kind
of detail.
You know, it is proof to me
that she had seen something.
In many ways,
I'm still looking for answers
about what happened
on that night.
I'd run into the ghost
of a young man
who had lost his life.
You know, he died so suddenly.
I think that Michael
didn't know
he was dead in that moment.
It's what haunted me
for 20 years.
That rage.
[ROARING]
I don't think that I'd had
that experience by accident.
Today I write ghost stories.
And it's due
to that crippling fear
that I felt on that road.
That one incident
affected and changed
the rest of my life.
We were kind of known
for pulling pranks.
Up to this point, I had never
seen drew scared before.
Maybe this prank that we did
is now coming back to us.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
We felt that we
were in danger,
that we were going to be hurt.
Lebanon valley is a college
that's smack dab in the middle
of a small mom-and-pop town.
Sophomore year, drew and I
moved in early.
We were there when
the freshman came to campus.
Mary Green is a co-ed dorm.
Living in the same hallway
with women was a good idea.
You are looking for
the cars to go help
that have the freshman girls
to help them move
their stuff in.
Just because, hey,
you never know.
It might turn into a date.
I was very nervous
when I first arrived
at lvc.
There's tons of people
I didn't know
moving into a room
that I'd never been in.
It was all just
very nerve-racking.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Directly behind Mary Green
is a very active railway.
When you first move
into the building,
you know you're living next
to train tracks.
[TRACKS RATTLING]
After the hustle and bustle
of everyone moving in
Yo, dude.
It was kind of a relief
to finally have
our little home, really,
kind of set up the way
we wanted it.
I was a music recording major,
kind of into
the whole technology thing.
And we had all of our TV
and stereo and everything
was ready to go,
so we were
just kind of excited
and looking forward
to the semester.
We were kind of known
for pulling good-natured pranks.
We weren't gonna hurt anybody.
We weren't doing anything crazy.
[LAUGHTER]
I remember one time,
one of the guys
that lives next door
was in the bathroom
taking a shower.
And Scott
and I stole his clothes
and, you know,
towels and things like that.
And so he was running
around the hallway stark naked.
Kind of displeased at us.
I was probably
a little taken aback
by these two because I knew they
were kind of crazy pranksters
that were always getting
into trouble doing something.
And I guess I was always
a little cautious
that they might do something
to me.
It was maybe a couple weeks
into sophomore year.
We were just kind of talking
about different ghost stories
and different things on campus.
Have you guys heard
about the ghost yet?
- No.
- No.
Drew and I once heard
the story of this little girl
that haunted Mary Green.
You guys ever heard
anything creepy
around the dorms or anything?
No.
People say they heard
a ball bouncing in the hallway,
or they had heard a child
laughing in the hallway.
Just kind of brushed it off
as, you know,
everyone has stories.
What dorm does she haunt?
Mary Green.
That's where we are.
- Seriously?
- We live in Mary Green.
Yeah.
That's when I kind of got
the idea,
I think there's a prank
in here somewhere.
I think we can run with this.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
[CUTS OUT]
We just found a sound
on the computer,
downloaded the sound,
and just played it through
our regular computer speakers.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
And it recorded it
on a tape recorder
that I would use
for class to record lectures.
We knew we needed
to get a ball
that, you know, made a lot
of noise when it bounced
so that people knew
what it was.
Ah.
[LAUGHING]
Dude, you're such a tool.
We waited until quiet hours.
This was the time that,
you know,
they shut
the hallway lights off
except for the emergency lights
at the end of the hallway
where the stairwells are.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
[BALL BOUNCING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[SHOUTING AND SCREAMING]
Oh, you guys!
You guys are so lame!
[LAUGHTER]
Yes.
Couple weeks had gone by.
Drew and I were just
kind of sitting in our room.
Both Scott and I
are pretty into technology
and, you know, gadgets.
And we have our TV sent through
our stereo system.
And as we're watching TV
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
The volume just gets cranked.
[FEEDBACK WHISTLING]
So I'm sitting there
spinning the knob,
trying to turn it down,
and it's not doing anything.
You ears were about to bleed,
it's so loud.
Turn it down, man!
It's not going down.
[NOISE STOPS]
What the hell was that?
I don't know.
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
TV kicked right back on.
He turned around,
turned it off again.
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
And the TV turned
right back on again.
The quicker he's hitting
the button,
the faster the TV's
coming back on.
[TRAIN TRACKS CLACKING]
As we're watching TV
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
The volume just gets cranked.
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
Turn it down, man!
He turn around,
turned it off.
[PIERCING FEEDBACK]
And the TV turned
right back on again.
The quicker he's hitting
the button,
the faster the TV's
coming back on.
So this point,
I'm, you know, thinking
he's just trying
to mess with me.
Dude, come on,
what are you doing?
Give me the remote.
I said, "Drew, I don't
I don't have the remote."
It's on the table
right next to you."
And he looked at me and said,
"Scott, I honestly don't know
what is going on."
[TRAIN TRACKS CLACKING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Guys, come on.
Our r.A. Came over,
and as soon as he stepped
in the room,
it's like, the volume
just cut out.
So we tried to explain
to him that we didn't do it.
It just happened.
We didn't do it.
But of course
he didn't believe it
because, you know, he kind of
knew us from before
and figured we were just pulling
another prank.
[DOOR CLOSES]
What just happened?
I don't know.
Drew did actually take
the stereo apart.
Being a skeptic,
I wanted
to come up with logical reasons
as to why these things
are happening.
There's any number
of audio glitches,
and, you know, little bugs
in the system
that could have
Could have caused that.
I was a music recording major.
I work with technology
every day.
But I couldn't explain
what this was.
In the fall
of my freshman year,
I was just getting settled
on getting used
to the study schedule.
One night, I went to bed.
It was just like
any normal night.
Everyone was sleeping.
[TRAIN TRACKS CLACKING]
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
[GIRL SCREAMS]
I woke up in the middle
of the night.
It was around 2:00
in the morning.
It was very dark
and quiet in our room.
And I realized I had
to go to the bathroom.
The girls bathroom was to
the right down the hallway.
I saw something out
of the corner of my eye.
I saw a childlike figure,
a little girl,
standing about, like,
10, 15 feet away from me.
She gave off this aura,
a sort of loneliness.
And then suddenly she started
playfully running
down the hallway,
almost as if to say,
"Come catch me."
[GIRL GIGGLES]
And for some reason,
I didn't hear any footsteps
of someone running away from me.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
There was just a feeling
that took over me
that I needed to run
down the hallway after her.
[GIRL GIGGLES]
And she ran out
to the stairwell
through the open doorway.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
There was absolutely
nothing out there.
I would have seen something.
I would have heard someone
go up the steps
or down the steps.
That's when it really hit me.
"Oh, my gosh,
what did I just see?"
It's not my personality
at all
to go running after something
that I don't know
what it is.
And that's when I got
really creeped out.
I was so scared.
[DOOR CLOSES]
I just ran back to my room.
I didn't want to tell anyone
because I was shy.
I didn't think anyone
would believe me.
I barely believed it.
If I didn't talk about it,
then maybe it didn't happen.
It was getting
towards finals time.
Drew and I were studying
for finals.
It was like any other night.
We had wrapped up
our night session.
We had shut the door,
locked it,
'cause we were gonna get ready
to go to bed.
We were in for the night,
kind of winding down
from the day.
[CLATTERING]
All of a sudden,
out of nowhere,
the door just came flying open.
And I know 100%
that that door was latched.
Before I could say anything,
drew was out in the hallway
looking
to see what was going on.
I didn't see anybody there.
If somebody
was just right there,
you'd hear a door close
or something like that at least.
And then
[GIRL GIGGLING]
We were in for the night.
Closed the door and locked it.
All of a sudden,
out of nowhere
[CLATTERING]
Before I could say anything,
drew was out in the hallway
looking to see what
was going on.
Don't see anybody there.
So as I turn to go head
into my room
[GIRL GIGGLING]
I hear a little girl giggle.
It was very apparently
not somebody
who would be college-aged.
I felt so scared
out of my mind.
It was definitely some giggling
from a child.
It was a little girl.
So I maybe took a step
towards the laughter
to see if I could see anybody.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
And then all of a sudden
I hear it out of my other ear.
So it's now coming from the
other side of the hallway.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
It was like she
was right next to me.
[GIRL GIGGLING]
But there was nobody else
around.
[GIRL LAUGHING]
Dude.
[PANTING]
I wasn't investigating
anymore.
I was i was done with it.
I was thoroughly freaked out.
He looked white as a sheet.
He had the look
of complete terror on his face.
Up to this point, I had never
seen drew scared before
about anything.
There was no possible way
for this to have been a prank.
It was just way too real
and too
Too close.
I just looked at drew,
and I said,
"Do you think this
has had anything to do
with the little girl
and the prank we pulled?"
It really gave me the chills,
and I had the hair on the back
of my neck stand up.
I started thinking maybe
we did stir something up
with our little prank we pulled.
Was this little girl
playing tricks on us
since we decided to play
a trick on everybody else?
Maybe this prank that we did
is now coming back to us.
It'd been a couple days since
the incident with the door,
and I was by myself
in the room.
[DESK LIGHT PINGING]
All of a sudden,
I got a weird sensation
that there was
Something else there.
And so at this point
I knew,
she's here.
I saw her.
I saw a little girl
standing in the door.
She's standing there
looking at me.
I kind of froze
because it's really not
every day that you see a ghost.
She didn't like it
that we were playing with her,
and she wanted us to know.
[BOTH GASP]
Jeez, man,
you scared me.
What's wrong?
I just saw the girl.
What?
I didn't know what to do.
I felt so scared out of my mind,
I didn't know what
I could do next.
We felt that we were
in danger,
that we were going to be hurt.
So I said to him,
I said,
"Well, what do you want
to do?
What's our next step?"
At this point,
all we heard
was a story that there
was a little girl
that wandered the halls,
and, well, now I believe
that story.
But I kind of wanted
to dig a little bit deeper
and see, you know,
why is she wandering the halls?
We're gonna cover
everything up
to the beginning
of the civil war.
Yes?
Come on in.
Okay, see you next week.
I did speak with a professor
about everything
that had happened.
What's up?
I was a student
at Lebanon valley
from 1972 to 1976.
And I became an associate
professor of english here.
The students come to me
with a story or phenomenon
because I do not dismiss
people's ghost stories.
200 people have heard
or seen the little girl
at Mary Green hall.
Something's going on
that people keep reporting.
[UPBEAT ROCKABILLY MUSIC]
Once, many years ago,
on opening day,
a family was moving
their daughter
into Mary Green hall.
And with her
is her younger sister.
Maybe about six
or seven years old.
Ball, ball.
Here you go, all right?
We found out as they were,
you know, making sure
the older daughter
was all set
This little girl
decided to go downstairs
and play outside
with her ball.
Then all of a sudden,
the ball gets away from her.
Mary Green hall was built
a matter of 100 feet or so
from the Redding
railroad tracks.
And she goes out there
to get the ball.
[TRAIN CHUGGING]
And that railroad
is very active.
[TRAIN CHUGGING]
And suddenly there's
the noise.
[TRAIN ENGINE WHISTLING]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
Once, many years ago,
a family was moving
their daughter
into Mary Green hall.
This little girl
decided to go downstairs
and play outside
with her ball.
[TRAIN ENGINE WHISTLING]
[TRAIN TRACKS CLACKING]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
And it hits her.
And it kills her.
After a few yeras,
people start to say,
"You know"
[BALL BOUNCING]
"In those corridors,
I hear this bouncing ball."
That really kind of
hit home with us.
We came to the realization
that we probably brought
this on ourselves.
Perhaps she was wandering
the halls
looking for her family,
or maybe she was wandering
the halls
looking for the ball.
And when Scott and I bounced
that ball down the hall,
that's what made her come back,
was hearing a ball
and thinking maybe it was hers
and wanted to come play
with it again.
I looked at him,
I said,
"Why don't we just apologize
and see if everything stops?"
You start.
I'm sorry
that we made people
afraid of you
for our enjoyment.
We're sorry for everything
that happened to you.
Sorry if we offended you.
Sorry if you think
we made fun of you.
We're sorry
that we made you think
that we wanted to play with you
and that we bounced the ball
down the hallway.
We don't want to play anymore.
We need you to stop.
We need to get on
with our lives.
After a week,
nothing happened.
Come toward the end
of the semester,
nothing else happened.
We didn't experience
anything else.
You never really know,
but to a point,
I could feel that we
were out of this.
Years later, I found out
a friend of mine, Jen,
had some similar experiences
with the little girl.
At first, I was a skeptic.
But there's certain experiences
in life
that just stay with you.
This was real.
Being that I am a dad now,
there's a lot of things that
kids will do to get attention.
I can't be a skeptic anymore.
This is as real it gets
for me.
It certainly changed
my ideas
on maybe being more careful
with
[GIRL GIGGLING]
What you play with.
Pranks are certainly not
a part
of what I do anymore.
It's a real-life tragedy
that took place.
And it's not something
that you want to poke fun at.
Knowing how she's walking
the halls,
and she's never gonna find
her family.
She was just looking
for people to play with.
[GIRL GIGGLES]